shèng

left over

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
乘 sound component

  Sound component

chéngshèng

  

ride

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

Definitions

 

shèng

leftovers, residue, remains; to remain; to be left; to have as remainder

Most common words with 剩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

剩下

to remain

to remain

剩余

remainder

过剩

surplus

所剩无几

there is not much left

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.ləŋ-s

zyingH

shèng

left over


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 47.0927% of movies

957th most common character in movies

1446th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5269


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